Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Runloop

Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox runs microVMs. Runloop runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

Runloop

Devboxes built for coding agents.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: $50 credit
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Runloop profile

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Runloop

Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour

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18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

Runlooprunloop.ai/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: $0.108
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: $0.0252
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: $50 credit
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Runloop: Pay as you go
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Runloop: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: Not listed
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Runloop: MicroVM
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Runloop: Not listed
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Runloop:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Runloop:

Developer

SDKs: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

Trust

License: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: Not listed
BYOC: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Runloop

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: $0.158
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: $0.317
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Runloop: $0.634

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Which one fits

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Runloop fits when

You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 Type II.

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